Sneek Peak - Behind the scenes, new palette and house painting. (Patreon)

Hi everyone,

I hope you had a great weekend. 

It's Monday morning here in Australia and I've spent my morning answering questions and thanking people for their responses and comments. I get up around 6.30am every morning and head straight to my computer. I check my emails first and it takes me until about 8.00am until I'm finished answering everyone. Then I have my breakfast and get on with my work for the day.  It's taking longer lately because of our non-existent internet. It's been terrible where we are. The internet keeps dropping out for hours at a time and then when we do have it, it's so slow it's worse than the old 'dial up' that we used to have in the early days of the internet. It dropped out Saturday lunch time and it's only just come back on now. It's so slow though that I had to connect my computer to my iphone and use the data from my phone in order to upload the photos here.

I started a Gardenia painting on the weekend. I've posted a photo of it here. I have also been in touch with Robert from Robax Engineering in the US who makes watercolour palettes. I told him what my ideal palette would be and he very generously made a prototype for me and sent it to me to test out. How good is that? I was thrilled to receive it. You can see it on my desk here. I'm going to put all my most used colours in it and give it a test run this week. I'll let you know how it goes.

I've included a photo of the back of the house. I told you Dom and I were painting the outside every weekend, well that's Dom up on the verandah roof. We have painted the top level all the way around and now we have to continue painting the ground level under the verandah so that should be a bit easier. Then we have to get back up on the roof and paint all the cladding, the window frames and the eaves. So much still to do, but like Dom always says when I'm feeling overwhelmed, 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'

Have a fabulous week. I'll have a new tutorial for you as soon as I can.

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